{"id":17059,"date":"2026-04-29T13:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=17059"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:57:16","slug":"startup-says-it-can-read-your-brain-signals-using-a-pair-of-headphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/startup-says-it-can-read-your-brain-signals-using-a-pair-of-headphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Says It Can Read Your Brain Signals Using a Pair of Headphones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have an old post<\/a> on brain transparency that highlighted the WEF presentation on the bossware of the future, but I hadn’t seen much coverage of the hardware in the space. Here is a company referenced which has financing from the Pentagon. No issues there. And this gets incredibly more creepy if you watch the WEF presentation from the link above. And bossware was a thing when I worked for AT&T before retiring, as they were tracking us on our work PCs like dogs. It always tickled me that megacorps had such poor management that they relied on such things, along the lines of your manager asking you to write up your accomplishments for the year…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/futurism.com\/health-medicine\/neurable-startup-brain-signals-headphones<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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“One could certainly imagine how enforced use of such devices could create a very dystopian basis for behavioral control.”<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Neurable<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Whether they\u2019re harvesting your data or serving you ads, consumer electronics brands have always wanted to get inside your head. Now, a hip neurotech startup says its devices can do exactly that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The startup, called Neurable, recently announced it was licensing its \u201cnon-invasive\u201d brain-computer interface headphones to consumer product manufacturers. First covered by TechCrunch<\/em><\/a>, the company is casting a pretty wide net in its search for licensees, including the health, gaming, and productivity industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThrough Neurable\u2019s licensing platform, OEMs can directly integrate its AI-powered brain-sensing technology into existing hardware, such as headphones, hats, glasses, and headbands, while maintaining full control over product design, user experience, and distribution,\u201d Neurable said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While buzzy companies like Elon Musk\u2019s infamous Neuralink<\/a> seek to plant hardware inside<\/em> human brains, Neurable is trying to circumvent the operating room altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company has previously partnered with audio brand Master & Dynamic to put out the MW75 Neuro LT brain-scanning headphones, which are meant to monitor your focus and give you a numerical score as you work. At a suggested retail price of $700, it\u2019s difficult to tell how legitimate the brain-scanning performance is, given a lack of critical reviews<\/a> and the historical challenges non-invasive BCI has faced with noise interference and signal degradation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s also the question of who, exactly, the potentially invasive tech is serving. Neurable maintains a $1.2 million research partnership with the Pentagon to study whether its wearable BCI can track Air Force service members\u2019 cognitive fitness. Beyond the ethical concerns of a company doing business with the US military establishment<\/a>, such a move also raises some important questions about how responsible a steward Neurable will be with the brainwave data<\/a> its devices collect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to service members being made to use BCI gadgets, \u201cone could certainly imagine how enforced use of such devices could create a very dystopian basis for behavioral control,\u201d James Giordano, former chief of neuroethics at Georgetown University Medical Center warned the Military Times<\/em><\/a> of the Pentagon contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going forward, it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess who will step up to partner with Neurable on expensive brain-monitoring devices \u2014 nevermind convince consumers to pay good money to have their innermost cognitive processes poked and prodded by a defense contractor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have an old post on brain transparency that highlighted the WEF presentation on the bossware of the future, but I hadn’t seen much coverage of the hardware in the space. Here is a company referenced which has financing from the Pentagon. No issues there. And this gets incredibly more creepy if you watch the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17060,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17059\/revisions\/17060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}